A Tasmanian truck driver had a lucky escape when a tree hit his windscreen during wild weather. Wind gusts up to 141kph blew across Mount Wellington overnight, but conditions are expected to ease this afternoon.

When Jan Hughes and Holger Ostersen saw the volume of wastage from their cousin's rhubarb farm, rather than see it tossed out, they set up Rhubru, a small business that dreamed up 101 things to make with rhubarb.